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<blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 5143724" data-attributes="member: 48469"><p>Hire to fire and firing by algorithm. </p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/amazons-controversial-hire-to-fire-practice-reveals-a-brutal-truth-about-management.html[/URL]</p><p></p><p>"Last month,<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-tracks-unregretted-attrition-rate-people-not-sad-to-lose-2021-4" target="_blank"> Insider reported </a>on what appears--at least on the surface--to be an alarming practice at Amazon. According to the reporting, managers at the online retailer intentionally hire people that they know they're going to fire. </p><p></p><p>Really, though, the fact that managers at Amazon might offer someone a job just so they can terminate them isn't even the worst part of the story. See, managers at Amazon have a target rate for annual turnover. </p><p></p><p>They're expected to lose, either voluntarily or through termination, a specific number of employees every year. If you don't, you're expected to make up for it the following year. Managers are even evaluated using this metric, known as "unregretted attrition rate" (URA). Basically, it's the number of people you wouldn't be sad to see leave the company."</p><p></p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/06/amazon-is-firing-flex-workers-using-algorithms-with-little-human-intervention/[/URL]</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-06-28/fired-by-bot-amazon-turns-to-machine-managers-and-workers-are-losing-out" target="_blank">Locked gates</a>, <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AmazonFlexDrivers/comments/6tf0zx/are_rainy_days_the_easiest_way_to_get_deactivated/" target="_blank">inclement weather</a>, and <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AmazonFlexDrivers/comments/djawib/deactivated_for_picture_not_matching_my_picture/" target="_blank">bad selfies</a>—all reasons drivers report that they were fired by the bots that apparently run human resources for Amazon’s Flex delivery program.</p><p></p><p>Millions of independent contractors are at the whim of a system that Amazon knows is problematic, according to a new report by <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-06-28/fired-by-bot-amazon-turns-to-machine-managers-and-workers-are-losing-out" target="_blank">Bloomberg</a>. While serious early glitches have been worked out, significant issues remain, according to the article. Amazon is reportedly unconcerned about the hiccups and bad press that result so long as sufficient numbers of drivers are available to replace those whose accounts are mistakenly terminated.</p><p></p><p>“Executives knew this was gonna <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/group1/censored2.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":censored2:" title="Censored2 :censored2:" data-shortname=":censored2:" /> the bed,” a former engineer who designed the system told Bloomberg. “That’s actually how they put it in meetings. The only question was how much poo we wanted there to be.”</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Box Ox, post: 5143724, member: 48469"] Hire to fire and firing by algorithm. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/amazons-controversial-hire-to-fire-practice-reveals-a-brutal-truth-about-management.html[/URL] "Last month,[URL='https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-tracks-unregretted-attrition-rate-people-not-sad-to-lose-2021-4'] Insider reported [/URL]on what appears--at least on the surface--to be an alarming practice at Amazon. According to the reporting, managers at the online retailer intentionally hire people that they know they're going to fire. Really, though, the fact that managers at Amazon might offer someone a job just so they can terminate them isn't even the worst part of the story. See, managers at Amazon have a target rate for annual turnover. They're expected to lose, either voluntarily or through termination, a specific number of employees every year. If you don't, you're expected to make up for it the following year. Managers are even evaluated using this metric, known as "unregretted attrition rate" (URA). Basically, it's the number of people you wouldn't be sad to see leave the company." [URL unfurl="true"]https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/06/amazon-is-firing-flex-workers-using-algorithms-with-little-human-intervention/[/URL] [URL='https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-06-28/fired-by-bot-amazon-turns-to-machine-managers-and-workers-are-losing-out']Locked gates[/URL], [URL='https://www.reddit.com/r/AmazonFlexDrivers/comments/6tf0zx/are_rainy_days_the_easiest_way_to_get_deactivated/']inclement weather[/URL], and [URL='https://www.reddit.com/r/AmazonFlexDrivers/comments/djawib/deactivated_for_picture_not_matching_my_picture/']bad selfies[/URL]—all reasons drivers report that they were fired by the bots that apparently run human resources for Amazon’s Flex delivery program. Millions of independent contractors are at the whim of a system that Amazon knows is problematic, according to a new report by [URL='https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-06-28/fired-by-bot-amazon-turns-to-machine-managers-and-workers-are-losing-out']Bloomberg[/URL]. While serious early glitches have been worked out, significant issues remain, according to the article. Amazon is reportedly unconcerned about the hiccups and bad press that result so long as sufficient numbers of drivers are available to replace those whose accounts are mistakenly terminated. “Executives knew this was gonna :censored: the bed,” a former engineer who designed the system told Bloomberg. “That’s actually how they put it in meetings. The only question was how much poo we wanted there to be.” [/QUOTE]
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